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Small town is packed with industry leaders
For Cathy Yancy, it felt like the first day of school. After she packed her bag and stepped off the front porch of her new home at the edge of the village of New Canaan, Conn., she strolled down the brick sidewalks toward the Metro-North station. When she boarded the train that day in the spring of 2010, she nervously considered where to sit. Then she saw an old friend waving his arm, flagging her down. As she approached, he smiled and slapped the seat next to him. It was NBC Sports President Ken Schanzer. “Ken told me: ‘There are seat assignments,’” said Yancy, who is vice president of broadcasting at the NFL. “He gave me the 101. He told me where I should sit — and where I shouldn’t. I didn’t know how serious it was until I got off the train that morning and someone said to me, ‘I can’t believe you sat on Ken’s bench!’” In fact, sports executives sharing a train to Manhattan has become a common occurrence in New Canaan.
